Estimación de los costes de publicación en revistas científicas indexadas en JCR en 2017 y 2018: El caso de la Psicología

Abstract

This paper assesses the costs of publishing (Article Processing Charges) demanded by scientific publishers to publish articles in their journals. It have been selected the journals included in quartiles 1 and 2 (Q1, Q2) in Journal Citation Reports (JCR) for the eleven categories in which Psychology is subdivided, during 2017 and 2018. The Golden OA has been calculated and converted into euros for all the amounts required by the publishers. As for the 362 journals which have been analysed within these two years and the total number of registers obtained was 632, the final cost is €135,514,886.38, €67,027,213.11 of which relate to journals in JCR 2017, and €68,487,673.28 to JCR 2018. The average cost of publishing an article was €2321.55. There are statistically significant differences in the costs of publishing in open access according to the category of Psychology. There are many conclusions about scientific and publications policies which nations should rethink.